Sorry that I haven't posted the drawings yet. They're done, I just haven't exported them and put them on dA yet; really busy lately. Unless something happens today, I WILL have them up by the end of the day.

Next I need to scan the pic I did of Rez, and then I'll need to do Gabriel, Rosella, Hazel, and Geodan.

BTW, I keep forgetting to say that I have a base visual style for Hazel jotted down. As you said you were gonna do her, go ahead and continue with that when you can. Then I'll just meld the two styles together. I'm personally thinking of her as a sort of hardcore/serious 'womanly' character: one that comes off sexy: like Lightning or something kind of.

Unique Abilities: Has a single slot in her glove's magic memory that she can put an enemy skill in. She can replace it at any time with another.

Personality Type: Fairly intelligent, and innocent. As with her 'mentor' Rez, she comes off as naive. Though unlike Rez, she genuinely is. Easily frightened, but also has a bit of a temper that flares up on rare occasions.

Physical Appearance: Adorable little girl. She always seems to be dirty because she tends to work more tirelessly than even Rez. Wears stain repellant work clothes, and keeps her hair up in a low bun. Digi-colors her hair all of the time; this time it's pink.

History: Grew up with her grandparents, who are very nice. Her parents want to be with her, but their jobs keep them extremely busy. Though she understands, as she has the same workaholic attitude. Met Rez about two years ago, and has been working in her shop ever since, as a sort of apprentice. Because of this, they've grown quite close.

Motivation: Once things begin to get serious, she follows simply to help make sure that everyone (Rez in particular) stays safe. But the workaholic and 'genius' in her wouldn't allow her to leave anyway; she wants to learn everything she possibly can along the way.

Sorry I haven't posted a character in the last few days. I tried to use two monitors (which should be fricken easy to set up), and ended up somehow making my toolbars vanish in Manga Studio. Haven't figured out how to get them back yet

Personality Type: Sarcastic, dirty minded, temptress etc. Underneath that, she is rather caring toward the people she is close to.

Physical Appearance: Long black hair she wears in a side ponytail. Green eyes. Wears a poofy blue skirt with black tights underneath. A light grey blouse is covered by a tightly laced black corset.

History: As a child, her little brother was attacked by a fire breathing creature. In an attempt to defend him, she copied the creatures fire breath and scared it away. Eventually her town became scared of her and forced her to leave. Her brother came with her, but he became ill and passed away. Ever since she has been traveling, looking for new abilities to learn.

Motivation: Learning the skills the party used when they defended the town she was staying in at the time. The potential of copying a skill of immense power from the crystals or the ancient leader eventually comes into play.

1. We already have three characters of a funny or sarcastic nature. Too many more and it'll be hard to take them seriously in their quest.

2. The Blue Mage is a good idea in a sense, but it has no backstory here, and doesn't fit well without it. I'd say she needs to be more Dragoon-esque without actually being a Dragoon.

3. Along with the Blue Mage idea, there's also the fact that Rosella can do this. Granted, she can only store one ability at a time, but it still could be considered pointless for her to be able to do it if another character can.

That's fine with me. Still gotta give her a reason for the fire breath though, lol (and a way for it to function in-game). And her appearance should probably change a bit according to her more serious personality. Doesn't need an overhaul.

Well, if you can't figure her out, just move on, and I'll finish her up. I've been having trouble with drawing Geodan anyway (so I took a break to do some GameGrumps fanart), and could use the chance to draw a beautiful lady; it's what I'm best at, lol.

Goddang I wish I owned Minecraft! So addicting! COBBLEGORKINAAAAAAH *foams at the mouth like a Justin Beiber fangirl*

Heard the name; nothing else. The thing is, I'm EXTREMELY picky about the anime I watch. I hate fanservice and useless gore, cliches and pointless stuff like that. Anime is full of such stuff, so I don't watch much honestly. I can count the anime I've watched all the way through on just two hands probably.

That's of course, not to say that Kampfer is any of those things. But I'm always hesitant to jump into anime, leading to me knowing the names of -and maybe summaries for- a LOT of anime that I have never seen.

Bad voice acting or not, I prefer dubs (subs can be jus as ripe with translation errors, so I'd at least prefer to focus my eyes on the action rather subtitles). And I also prefer watching things legally, lol. I know... I'm difficult.

Weapon: Ginormous Battle Axe. It is the size of one of the crystals themselves

Unique Abilities: Can preserve life in a rock and take over a new host.

Personality Type: Ruthless, but not the most intelligent. Everything that happens was set up for him, with little to none coming from his own planning. For an evil ruler, he isn't extremely egotistical. However, he underestimates the party greatly in the final moments.

Physical Appearance: A crystal at first, but once reborn and expelled from Rez's body he has a buzz cut showing what would be blonde hair. Blue eyes, and he wears black armor trimmed with red. I'm also thinking about giving him a sirly looking cape, because capes are classy as fuck.

History: Ruled an ancient race in the far past and was preserved inside a crystal until the day a new, indestructible host body would arrive. With the new host body he would reclaim his kingdom and rule as he saw fit till the end of time.

Lol, I thought you were doing the profile on the guy who android-ized Rez. Regardless, it's a good profile, I'm just not too fond of that name for an all-powerful spirit being guy from ancient times. It should probably have a strange, mystical, non-human feel... Or just be a title that shows his importance in his race.

The ancient race, known as the Eidol is flourishing. Under the leadership of Gran Chief Malagrous, they finally conquer the world, eradicating every other sentient race on the planet. But not long after, terrible changes in the climate of the planet begin to happen, quickly killing most of the population off. Fearing that the Gods are trying to make him pay for what they've done, Malagrous commissions the wisest of all the Eidol to find a way to separate his immortal soul from his body. Through the magical abilities they possess through deep connections to the soul, the process is a success, and Malagrous' spirit energy is placed within a vessel for safe keeping. The vessel is a diamond colored orb known as a Rondure.

Four other orbs of a smaller size are created, and all five are placed in shrines across the globe. Volcanic activity causes ashes to cover the sky over the entire planet, and the rest of the Eidol race is lost, though Malagrous plans to use his situation to bring them back... by becoming a God himself.

XX amount of years later, the human race evolves, with the planet stabilizing and resetting itself. They eventually find the five Rondure, including the Gran Rondure, which Malagrous is currently inside. These mysterious orbs seem to be exuding energy that creates lush and vibrant environments, perfect for allowing life to flourish. Slowly five different nations grow around these magical devices. Things progress similar to our world until finally, the biggest confrontation the humans have ever seen happens; the Deca-War. The war begins when the Gran Rondure begins to mysteriously extract the vital energies from the other four, leaving those nations weakened. Fearing that they will be overrun, the country in control of the Gran Rondure quickly invents a machine that allows them to raise their entire continent into the air. However, this only sparks more hatred from the other nations, as they feel like this was their plan all along.

The war still rages on for an exhausting ten years, until finally, the world below has become so barren that they have no choice but to focus on keeping themselves going. Meanwhile the sky nation has had massive leaps in technology, bringing them to a very tech oriented, futuristic level. Those below split into two groups; one decides to keep pushing forward with industry as best as they can, and they salvage everything they can from their old lives. The other decides that this must be fate, and regress to a simpler life, akin to the American Wild West. What nobody knows yet is that this was all intentionally set up by Malagrous, who finds this is his time to strike. Now is when he can finally gain the energy he needs to free his soul, and become a God.

It is here, about twenty years after the Deca-War, that we find our central character; Varian Rez, who has lived on the floating continent all of her life. We first meet her only a couple of months after a serious accident that left her nearly dead. She was rushed to a special medical professional; the only person on the continent known to have the experimental technology that could save her life. It's not entirely clear what was done to her, only that she came out alive, and looked no different from before, when finally healed.

Rez feels strangely compelled to travel the world below. She knows there's a world below, but hardly knows anything about it, as she was born right at the end of the Deca-War, when things were still tense. Her close companion and mechanical/technological apprentice, Rosella Waren decided to tag along. Rosella is a young girl at the age of twelve, who lives with her grandparents, as her parents themselves are kept extremely busy with work. While her parents would freak out if they ever found out she followed Rez on her journey below, her grandparents feel it's a good thing to do; having been adults before the Deca-War even began. Not long after they make it down below, the reach a town where they meet their first companion; Braxton Mal III. Anxious to get as far away from his hometown as possible (which he has already fled from by this point), he tags along. As the three of them continue to journey along, Rez begins to lose some of her memories, her past getting slightly fuzzier each and every day.

Meanwhile a man from the industrial region begins to have dreams at night, which depict Rez's maniacally contorted face as she uses some strange magical forces to murder the inhabitants of his city, and destroy everything in her path. A voice in his mind explains that he's the only one who can stop this from happening. This man is Gabriel Chance, the leader of a vigilante force called the Paladin's, who's only goal is to serve justice where it's truly needed; always defending the innocent. His concern facing these nightmares is fully realized when he finds Rez and company within his home city the very next day.

Gabriel immediately goes on the offensive, and gets into a one-on-one battle with Rez. Gabriel gets the upper hand fairly quickly, as Rez is backed into a corner. He raises the tip of his blade, so that it's inches from her face, ready to slay the evil woman, only to find Braxton's gun resting against his head a split second later. Facing three opponents, and attracting a crowd, Gabriel has no choice but to flee the scene.

A touching moment ensues between Braxton and Rez, but is quickly thrown aside when Rez passes out, and they find out that she's been hurt severely, a massive slash cutting deep into her stomach. Rez wakes up several days later. The happiness that she's alive is however quelled by some shocking news; the only reason she's alive is because that area of her body was entirely mechanical inside. Somehow, she has been altered to at least partially robotic. She's an android.

Confused, Rez flees from the building, and puts as much distance between her and the others as possible, suddenly feeling alone, distant, and unwanted. She ends up running directly into the first Knimban person she's ever met, Tohi. Though she doesn't fully explain what's going on to him, Tohi shows that he's empathetic toward her, comforting her enough to bring her back to the others. Tohi is apparently one of the Paladins as well, and doesn't exactly understand what Gabriel was doing attacking Rez. He can sense that she isn't a bad person, and so decides to travel with them, knowing that Gabriel will most likely follow. Braxton warns that if Tohi tries to betray Rez, he won't be coming back alive. Note also that this is the first town in which they run across Braxton's wannabe love interest, Grace McKinney, who has apparently been following his tracks as closely as possible since he left home. They give her the slip however.

The party decides that they need to make their way back to the floating continent to get answers to Rez's condition. It has become obvious that this has something to do with her accident; so the doctor is exactly who they need to find. They have to take a different route back however, as political strife over supply shortages has made retreat the way they came very dangerous. On their way, they meet up with Geodan Santos, who was kicked off of the floating continent for disrupting society in a plethora of ways. The drunken once-soldier convinces them that he knows the doctor -named Miguel Victorino- very well, and can get them to him easily... assuming they can get him back to the floating continent.

They hesitantly agree, and he explains that Victorino was once part of a highly secretive weapons department of the military, and Geodan's status allowed them to meet several times. It also didn't hurt that they were distant family. Once the Deca-War was over however, Victorino opened up a clinic that was centered around technological experimentation surgeries. His good status with the government allowed his methods to be kept a secret from the public, as long as he let the government themselves in on all of his advancements.

Continuing on, they once again face Gabriel, who seems to have lost himself in his quest. He is being accompanied by some sort of spirit demons, in the shape of hell hounds. The group barely escapes, even with the strength of Geodan by their side, and eventually make their way to a town where they meet Hazel Dean Morris. She tells them that she can give them a place to rest, before drugging them, and stealing almost all of their belongings; which was made easier by her ability to seduce all of the male party members.

They eventually catch her, and are able to get their things back. But instead of punishing her severely for what she did, they feel that she has paid the price enough, and attempt to leave her behind (again, this is partially due to the infatuation the males feel for her). Shocked by this, Hazel convinces them that she can be of use; she wants to see where this all leads, what with Rez being an android, and their confrontation with Gabriel. But secretly, she also feels like this might be good for her. Nobody else since her brother's death has ever been so kind to her. She has always had to do things on her own. This is also the first point in the story where you can choose to get Grace on your party, as she's actually the one that finds them all drugged and screwed over.

Finally closing in on their transportation up to the floating island, they devise a plan to get Geodan through. Right as they're about to sneak in, Gabriel attacks once more, this time with several different types of spirit demons backing him up. Exposed, and with no choices left, they are forced to hijack the vehicles that were supposed to take them up. But unfortunately, while Rez, Braxton, and Geodan take one, Gabriel takes the other before the rest of the party has a chance. Therefore, Rosella, Tohi, Hazel, and Grace (if you have her) are left down below to fend off the spirit demons.

In a rush, Geodan leads them toward their destination as soon as they arrive, with Gabriel stalking them every step of the way. They finally make it to Victorino's whereabouts, but Geodan and Braxton get caught up fighting Gabriel, who's trying his absolute hardest to eradicate Rez. The young woman is on her own as she makes her way to Victorino himself. She finds him in his lab in the basement, only to be attacked by his defense mechanisms. Having grown since her journey began, she quickly dispatches them. But the noise reaches the floor above, distracting Braxton. Geodan understands Braxton's feelings for Rez, so he urges the young man to go to her. Braxton is torn, but quickly decides to heed this advice, heading to her location.

By the time he makes it there, Rez has Victorino cornered, frantically trying to pry information from him about why he kept her 'transformation' secret. She then asks if this is why she has been losing her memory, this information taking Braxton by surprise, as she hadn't told anyone else about her memory loss. Tears fall down her cheeks as Victorino nods, and begins to explain. His words have a very tortured, yet demented tone to them. He tells Rez that her transformation saved her life, but that it can also save others; the lives of his wife and daughter.

Victorino begins to recount his life during the Deca-War, and how he had such a beautiful family. Though his work was hard, secretive, and rather grim, his family was what kept him going. They were truly happy. But one night, there was military raid from the countries below, in which he was left him helpless as his wife and daughter were tortured and killed. Ironically, this took place the very same night and place that Geodan got captured, saw his Abuela killed, and went on a murderous rampage.

Rez asks what this has to do with her, to which Victorino begins to explain. He slowly begins to look more and more deranged, as he talks about his contact with the Gran Rondure, and the voice that spoke to him; the voice of one, Gran Chief Malagrous. In the very same moment that he mentions this name, Gabriel bursts into the room. His equally deranged eyes dart away from Rez at the mention of this name, and slowly his sanity once again takes over, as Victorino explains that Malagrous wants to take over the planet, becoming a God. His ancient race was driven to extinction, but his soul survived within the Gran Rondure.

Malagrous promised Victorino that his family could be revived, if only he helped. He only needed to create a host vessel; something capable of holding a soul that didn't originate from it. So that's what he did. Rez was the first successful android experiment after twenty years of attempts. He encoded simple directives within her A.I.; create confrontation within the world. It was never fully her decision to explore the world below. It was set in motion by another; by the A.I. that was planted within her head. Confrontation sends energy to Malagrous, which is exactly what he needs to finally escape. And Rez's memory loss ensures that her vessel of a body is cleaned out when her soul is finally extracted. Eventually, the A.I. will force Rez to make her way to the Gran Rondure, where she can be made host to Malagrous' soul.

This revelation takes everyone by surprise, as Victorino explains the last piece he has for them. Malagrous is who has been talking to Gabriel. He has been manipulating the Paladin, to ensure confrontation. “It was so simple to corrupt someone so pure.” Victorino says, relaying the quote by Malagrous to them. He breaks down, shouting to the heavens that he has done his job. He begs Malagrous to restore the lives of his family. Nothing happens, and in desperation he pulls a weapon from his coat, and points it at Rez. “I'll destroy your precious vessel!” he screams in warning. As he's about to pull the trigger, several spirit demons appear, and rip him to shreds. The scene closes as Braxton embraces Rez, Gabriel falling to his knees, baffled and ashamed by how easily he was manipulated.

It picks up a day later, as the rest of the party meets up with them all; Geodan recovering from the beating he got from Gabriel. The group allows Gabriel to join them, knowing he wasn't truly in control of his actions (Tohi attests to this). They decide that they have to find a way to stop this all. The only option they can come up with is to destroy the Rondure, hoping that it will weaken Malagrous before they face him and attempt to destroy the Gran Rondure.

Throughout the next portion of the story, they go to each nation below, and enter the Rondure Shrines (which have been massively expanded by humanity in order to keep them safe) and face off against boss-grade spirit demons. They then successfully destroy each of the four Rondure in the world below, though it doesn't seem to change anything. Nobody understands; it's as if they're not functioning anymore. The only upside is that none of the four nations seem to know that they're destroying the Rondure, as it's having no negative (or positive) effects.

Finally, it's time for them to confront the Gran Rondure; they have no other options. They try to convince Rez to stay behind, but she already knows that -because of the A.I.- it's her destiny to help them defeat Malagrous. They don't have much choice, and agree. The group makes their way through the shrine fortress, which is significantly more difficult to traverse than the others. As they finally make it to the room directly outside of the actual inner sanctum, they're attacked by yet another (absolutely massive) spirit demon. Braxton decides to lead a team that stays behind, but not before a touching moment between him and Rez. Rez leads the rest through to the final area, the first 'final boss' being the demon fought by Braxton and company (the defeat of the demon in battle only continues the game; it doesn't actually kill the demon). Braxton unfortunately is killed by the demon, the others still trying desperately to hold the line regardless (unique conversational changes if certain party members like Grace are present).

Rez and company confront the Gran Rondure, and are greeted by the voice of Malagrous (unique conversational changes if Gabriel is present). Gran Chief Malagrous introduces himself, and begins to explain in deeper detail exactly what happened to his race; the Eidol. He tells them that he's the reason the Rondure gave so much life to the land. He's the reason why humanity prospered... all so that they could create war and corruption, giving him the energy he needed to become a God. Yes indeed, he is the reason for the energy siphoning that lead to the Deca-War. When he found the right time, he cut those down below off, causing the war. He then ensured prosperity on the floating continent, watching the technological advancements closely. This was his best bet for finding someone to create a vessel for him. And that person was Victorino.

His last words confirm that this was all so that he could become a God himself, and finally truly defy the others who destroyed his race. He possesses Rez's body, and the others have no choice but to enter battle with her. However, she can still fight his attempts to expel her soul, and after several turns in battle, she finally gains the upper hand (his soul itself may have the energy to transfer to her body and become a God, but it isn't stronger than any other soul until he has fully assimilated). His soul is expelled, and he has little choice but to form into the biggest spirit demon yet, to try and kill Rez's companions; they're in his way. Two different forms of this Spirit Malagrous later, they've finally gotten the upper hand.

In desperation, he tries once more to take Rez's body, and a quick scripted fight between their souls ensues. Rez wins, and Malagrous is defeated. They destroy the Gran Rondure, ensuring that his soul will dissipate, and they rush out to help the others, only to find that all of the spirit demons have died with Malagrous. Rez realizes that Braxton has been killed, but doesn't have time to grieve, as the whole continent begins to shake violently. They escape the shrine to find that the island is descending back toward the earth below. It crashes hard, but surprisingly doesn't do too much damage to either the civilizations below, or the island itself.

The game then fast-forwards to a few months later. Rosella narrates as she explains what happened to everyone. The world itself has begun recovery, and the environment has begun to slowly repair itself. Geodan cleaned up and joined the Paladins with Gabriel and Tohi, and is now dating Hazel. Hazel is now a teacher of history, after much research about everything that has happened since the disappearance of the Eidol. Gabriel, Tohi, and the Paladins are focused on helping any communities that are having trouble around the world, as devastation is still present in many places. (If you have secret characters, it talks about them one-by-one as well).

The scene then focuses on Rosella herself, who is sitting at a table with Rez. She seems to be explaining all of this to her dear friend. It then goes back to Rosella narrating over a black screen. She explains that Rez is still losing her memories at a faster pace every day; she can no longer recall anything about what happened, other than a few memories of Braxton. So to her, this is all nothing more than a fictional story being told by a companion. There are quite a few scientists and doctors working on deciphering the extremely advanced work done by Victorino, but until they can, Rez will quickly lose her ability to retain any long term memories. Rosella takes care of her for now. But even if the day comes when they can fix Rez, she'll never be able to regain her past; the knowledge that she and a ragtag group of people saved the world from a would-be God. And the one closest to her lost everything in doing so... just for her...

My only real problem with it is that neither Victorino or Malagrous are very prominent villains until the time that the party confronts them. But I can't see a feasible way to change that. It's hard to find the balance here between making the villains prominent, and keeping the story believable.